Holman Christian Standard Bible

A significant evangelical committee translation, the Holman Christian Standard Bible was produced as a fresh rendering of the complete Bible from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, based on modern critical texts rather than revised from an earlier English version. Published under the auspices of a Southern Baptist publishing house, it took its place among the several late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century English versions prepared by scholarly committees drawn from a range of denominations. Its translators described their method as optimal equivalence, a mediating approach positioned between formal and functional equivalence, and the version characterizes its own philosophy in those terms. Among its distinctive features is the selective use of "Yahweh" in rendering the divine name, a practice uncommon in mainstream English Bibles. The Holman Christian Standard Bible served as the textual predecessor of the CSB, which superseded it while retaining much of its translational groundwork.